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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-552-5-27-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: August 13, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

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Smith and black Rhodesian nationalists. They withheld the de-
tails of the proposal, however, suggesting they anticipate ob-
jections from white politicians in Smith's Rhodesian Front Party
Smith Agrees on Proposals for Rhodesian Talks: South African
Prime Minister Vorster and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith,
who met in Pretoria last weekend, have announced that they agreed
on proposals for starting the long--delayed negotiations between
Smith-Vorster proposals, subsequently told black Rhodesian
leaders in Zambia that:
THE PRESIDENT
HENRY A. KISSINGER
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Smith agreed unde
pressure from Vorster that the initial meeting take place in a
railroad car midway between Rhodesia and Zambia on the bridge
spanning the Zambezi River. Zambian President Kaunda's special
aide who visited Pretoria last weekend and concurred in the
-- After the Rhodesian government and the black leaders
define the basic constitutional issues in the initial
session, several joint committees will formulate the
particulars of a settlement and then adjourn to Rhodesia
to complete the text.
--- The Rhodesian government guarantees that all black
leaders engaged in negotiations will be free to come
and go and that no black nationalists will be arrested
as long as negotiations are under way.
--- When the drafting committees have completed their work,
a final conference will convene in London to conclude
a formal settlement.
CIA doubts that either the Rhodesian cabinet or Smith's party
will accept the guarantees for the. black. nationalists. Govern-
ment spokesmen have been preparing white Rhodesians for an
early intensification of the. counterinsurgency*campaign, and
some white. politicians have called for the rearrest of_ some
nationalists.
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